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In the fullness of time the gold standard has been supplanted not by free silver but by the inflation of the dollar , and millions of Americans pay a graduated income tax . In his insistence that the labor of every man , no matter how ...
In the fullness of time the gold standard has been supplanted not by free silver but by the inflation of the dollar , and millions of Americans pay a graduated income tax . In his insistence that the labor of every man , no matter how ...
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than we say upon the tariff question , I reply that , if protection has slain its thousands , the gold standard has slain its tens of thousands . If they ask us why we do not embody in our platform all the things that we believe in ...
than we say upon the tariff question , I reply that , if protection has slain its thousands , the gold standard has slain its tens of thousands . If they ask us why we do not embody in our platform all the things that we believe in ...
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You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard ; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies . Burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up ...
You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard ; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies . Burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up ...
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| Title | 12 Americans Speak |
| Editor | John Edwin Pomfret |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Huntington Library, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 183 pages |
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